Former National Security Coordinator Kofi Totobi Quakye has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct itself well ahead of the general elections slated for December 7, 2024, to avert any form of chaos.
The astute leader within the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) believes there will be tranquillity when the EC–the referee of the polls– is transparent with all stakeholders during its activities in the run-up to the crucial elections.
Speaking at the campaign launch of Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah, the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for the Essikado Ketan Constituency in Sekondi Takoradi, the maverick politician cautioned the EC against any form of election malpractice that will mar the credibility of the elections.
He was quick to note that the EC and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are attempting to subvert the verdict of Ghanaian electorates through a flawed voter register, which has raised eyebrows.
“The elections in 2020 were different; the one we’ll have in 2024 is going to be different,” he stated, emphasising that the NDC will leave nothing to chance before, during and after the general polls.
Sending a strong warning to the NPP, Mr Totobi Quakye indicated that Ghanaians were poised to change the current regime for its non-performance and that no impediment would be tolerated.
Addressing the crowd at Essikado, he stated emphatically that “2024 won’t be like 2020; if the NPP tries anything naughty, they will see what they don’t want to see.”
” If they[ the EC and NPP] try anything naughty, they’ll be overwhelmed, ” he cautioned.
Urging party faithful to work hard to propagate the message of the NDC fearlessly on Saturday, September 28, 2024, Mr Quakye also charged them to be very vigilant on the day of elections and report any manoeuvring tactics of either the EC or persons related to the governing NPP for onward action.
“All of us should be polling agents and be vigilant until we all win, ” he stated and went on to explain that the EC is reluctant to listen to calls from stakeholders to audit the 2024 voters register because they have realised the NPP is losing the polls but wants to adopt dubious means to keep the “failed government” in power.
He concluded that regardless of the opaque ways the EC is using to keep the NPP in power, the NDC, which has worked hard, “will beat them [NPP] fairly and squarely because the people of the country want a change.”
